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Is Tank Davis Back? · The Mixed Company Podcast

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  Speaker 1: In this corner, standing at six foot five, weight class unknowns,
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  Speaker 1: but hailing from the city of Sins.
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  Speaker 2: Put your hands together for Jamison Welch.
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  Speaker 1: And in this corner, standing at five foot ten, weighing
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  Speaker 1: in at pound and coming to us from his super
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  Speaker 1: secret bunker with no AC in Tucson, Arizona. Put your
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  Speaker 1: hands together for Luis Montemao.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Welcome back to the episode of X Commedy Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, on one a half of the show, I'm Jamison,
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  Speaker 2: as always from my Louis Luise. What's going home? Man?
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  Speaker 3: What's up, Jamison?
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  Speaker 4: We're here for another shorty edition. Episode fifty is where
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  Speaker 4: we're at now. So the show has come a long
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  Speaker 4: long way from the early days, which is awesome. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna keep it to just a couple of really
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  Speaker 4: short topics. The first one I wanted to start with
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  Speaker 4: is that we just got an exciting announcement that Telfy
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  Speaker 4: Malpez is coming back to the ring in August and
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  Speaker 4: Roly Romero is gonna be his opponent. So we've all
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  Speaker 4: been we've both been pretty stoked about you know how,
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  Speaker 4: the summer has been going a lot of fights almost
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  Speaker 4: every weekend for the last you know whatever, like five
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  Speaker 4: six weeks or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: And this getting announced in June.
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  Speaker 4: I've been right in before the Canelo fight and September
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  Speaker 4: is really awesome, so I'm kind of excited to see
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  Speaker 4: what else can be filled in before that and then.
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  Speaker 3: In like October November.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm shout out to to Tao for coming
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  Speaker 4: back so soon after fighting in January. We've also kind
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  Speaker 4: of been down on how how fighters don't fight as
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  Speaker 4: often as they could. But yeah, I think this is
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  Speaker 4: good news for the sport and good news for an
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  Speaker 4: already great news for an already good year for boxing.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel about this coming up?
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  Speaker 2: It's good. It's good news. All the fights are better,
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  Speaker 2: you know the motto, man, the more fights are better.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of those things to where even though I
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  Speaker 2: don't know the purpose of the fight per se, it's
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  Speaker 2: a good fight to have. I don't know whoever wins it,
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  Speaker 2: what do they get or whatever however lose it's in
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  Speaker 2: really bad shape, but it's one of those things where
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  Speaker 2: it's a good fight. You can put a good card
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  Speaker 2: around it. It could be an event for a weekend.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool. We need more of that, so we're not
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  Speaker 2: playing at all. I don't know if it's official official yet.
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  Speaker 2: By the time this airs it should be. But all
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  Speaker 2: that being said, it's good that we're getting these kind
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  Speaker 2: of matchups. We need these as much as possible for
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  Speaker 2: the second half of the year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and yeah, you're right, it's not a mega fight
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  Speaker 4: by any means. But I always want to make it
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  Speaker 4: clear that Tale Femo after that fight or during the
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  Speaker 4: fight with Shaker Stevenson, he wasn't snoozing in the ring.
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  Speaker 4: He wasn't unprepared, you know, he came ready to fight.
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  Speaker 4: He just didn't have it that night. And Shakhor is
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  Speaker 4: the guy. So I definitely think that tail Fee most
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  Speaker 4: still a draw, and I'm glad that he's coming back.
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  Speaker 4: So I actually looked looked this up. He has this
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  Speaker 4: weird pattern since like twenty twenty two, once boxing came
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  Speaker 4: back after the RONA fully that he fought twice in
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  Speaker 4: one year next year if I want, then twice in
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  Speaker 4: one year next year if ilt what and like he's
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  Speaker 4: stuck to that pattern consistently, including twenty twenty six, which
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  Speaker 4: is kind of weird.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what.
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  Speaker 4: That's about, or you know, how fights get negotiator how
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  Speaker 4: often blah blah blah. But he's a guy that should
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  Speaker 4: be there twice a year because he looks great in
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  Speaker 4: the ring. He's a very active, exciting fighter.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think.
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  Speaker 4: He's lost a step himself as a boxer. Like I said,
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  Speaker 4: I think Chakora was just better that night.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean I think that.
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  Speaker 4: Him fighting Roly and we have another card and having
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  Speaker 4: a recognizable name still hasn't against Puerto Rican, so he
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  Speaker 4: has a lot of support from the Puerto Rican people.
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  Speaker 3: It's only good news for the sport.
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  Speaker 4: Now Roly, who I do like personally, does this man
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  Speaker 4: have any chance?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it made fight interesting, Like I
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  Speaker 2: think he made fight close. Him winning would be a surprise.
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  Speaker 2: He won't be favored. Why going into the fight, he
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  Speaker 2: definitely won't be favored, but he's not necess in it
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  Speaker 2: for that, Like he's he's the guy that you make
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  Speaker 2: good fights with to get to the next fight, which
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  Speaker 2: is fine, which is we need those boxers. He's a
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  Speaker 2: quality opponent, but he won't be favored, so let's you know,
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  Speaker 2: let's kind of be mindful of that. With that being said,
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  Speaker 2: it would not surprise me if he won, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be shocked if he won. But with that being said,
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  Speaker 2: he won't be favored. He's gonna have to work very hard.
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  Speaker 2: He's have to train very hard. AlSi we got to
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  Speaker 2: kind of consider how serious is he, Like is he
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  Speaker 2: coming into this trying to win or he trying to
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  Speaker 2: get a checker? Two different methods there, two different mindsets there.
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  Speaker 2: So he'll be very interesting to see which role we get,
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  Speaker 2: but come up with a big loss. You never know how
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  Speaker 2: those kind of performances impact somebody. You never quite know.
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  Speaker 2: You just never know what happens when you get out
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  Speaker 2: classed like that. And like you said, it was nothing
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  Speaker 2: to be ashamed of. I mean, he's LOSTO a better fighter.
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  Speaker 2: It is. It happens. However, with all that being said,
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  Speaker 2: this is another big time in terms of light not
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  Speaker 2: pay per view, but all oz bey on it. People
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  Speaker 2: will be watching. I can't really have a second poor
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  Speaker 2: performances must the lesser fighter this time around. So one
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  Speaker 2: of those ones where you gotta take care of business
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  Speaker 2: because if you don't, he gets kind of ugly going forward.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll definitely see. I can't wait though.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a really good point that I didn't kind
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  Speaker 4: of think it right off the bat. I did say
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  Speaker 4: the tel Femo. I don't think he's lost it. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think he's over the hill or anything like that
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  Speaker 4: or was bad in that fight.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, you never know.
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  Speaker 4: We've seen it many times how somebody can come from
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  Speaker 4: a loss and they just never they're never the same,
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  Speaker 4: you know, to be to put it quite clearly, But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, I think, like I said, Roly is
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  Speaker 4: a talented guy, but yeah, I just don't see him
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  Speaker 4: with the same kind of speed, footwork and just you
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  Speaker 4: know power that that tel Femo has had. I think
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  Speaker 4: he definitely got that win against Ryan because Ryan was
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  Speaker 4: also very snoozy. I did want Roly to win that fight,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm glad that he did, but.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't upset as well. You know, I don't believe
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  Speaker 3: he was favored against Ryan Garcia.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly.
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  Speaker 3: Another thing, too, is speaking about how often people fight.
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  Speaker 4: This is the first time we've seen Roly back since
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  Speaker 4: May of twenty twenty five, during that terrible New York
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  Speaker 4: Times Square event where he beat Ryan Garcia. And I'll
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  Speaker 4: give you credit for this, Jamison, because you're the one
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  Speaker 4: that said it that Rolie is not the kind of
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  Speaker 4: guy that should be fighting once a year, right.
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  Speaker 2: He needs to be fighting three times a year because
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  Speaker 2: here's the thing. He has a weird kind of cult
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  Speaker 2: following that he fights, people will tune in and watch.
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  Speaker 2: People know who he is. He's fought big names, So
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  Speaker 2: he's the guy that should be fighting as much as
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  Speaker 2: possible because I wanted to make a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: But two, staying active, use the opportunity to get an
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  Speaker 2: upset win. And once you get upset win, all bets
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  Speaker 2: are off. So to me, he should be as active
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  Speaker 2: as possible in my opinion.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'll go ahead and say that I'm good
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  Speaker 4: with either guy winning. You know, I expect to tail
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  Speaker 4: female win, but if Roley takes it, I'm perfectly happy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna be here like, screw that guy. He sucks,
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  Speaker 3: blah blah blah or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: The thing that I don't want is a worring ass fight.
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  Speaker 4: I want the both of these guys to give it.
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  Speaker 4: They're all and you know, come, come, ready to work
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  Speaker 4: in the ring. So as long as we get that,
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  Speaker 4: I'm very happy. And again to add to the roster
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  Speaker 4: of upcoming fights, it has been great because this weekend,
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  Speaker 4: if you listen to this one, it airs we've got
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  Speaker 4: Xander's Ace versus Boots. And then weekend after that already
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  Speaker 4: July fourth and we got Abdulla Mason back July was
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  Speaker 4: looking a little, you know, less less active.
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  Speaker 3: August two is.
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  Speaker 4: A little a little quiet, so it's a good opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to start plugging in some some more matches. As you
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  Speaker 4: had said, it's about two to three months is a
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  Speaker 4: good time to announce a fight before.
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  Speaker 3: Right with in terms of like marketing and promo.
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  Speaker 2: It also depends on who's marketing, so some guys can
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  Speaker 2: need six weeks and you're good. But for the most part,
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  Speaker 2: three months ideal. You can get away with two, but
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  Speaker 2: three months is ideal because also a lot of times
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  Speaker 2: you got to sell the building, so sometimes it takes
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  Speaker 2: ninety days to sell out or sell most of the
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  Speaker 2: specially have like an NBA arena with life fifteen to
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  Speaker 2: twenty thousand seats, you might need seventy five to ninety
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  Speaker 2: days to sell those seats, so that to be part
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  Speaker 2: of it as well as well.
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  Speaker 4: Right, So let's see, I mean, so far, I've I've
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  Speaker 4: been very very happy with with twenty twenty six in
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  Speaker 4: terms of boxing so far, and yeah, we always want
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  Speaker 4: more fights, but I also don't want to be greedy.
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  Speaker 3: We've gotten some good, you know, some.
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  Speaker 4: Quality fights, and we got some coming up more on
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  Speaker 4: the schedule that I'm really stuck about. And of course
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  Speaker 4: the big, the big daddy of them all is Canelo
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  Speaker 4: in September. Everything is kind of plugging itself around that.
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  Speaker 3: So let's see moving.
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  Speaker 4: On to another fight that something that hasn't been officially announced,
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  Speaker 4: has been rumored talked about a lot. Gervanta Tank Davis
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  Speaker 4: just announced that he is signed or or has is
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  Speaker 4: going to be trained by Jose Ben Tovita, Senior David,
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  Speaker 4: David's father, and obviously a bit of it is Junior's father.
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  Speaker 3: Duh.
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  Speaker 4: No fight has been announced. The rumor is that it's
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  Speaker 4: aiming for August. You know, a lot of different potential
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  Speaker 4: matchups have been throwing out. People have sad Lomachenko, Shakoor,
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  Speaker 4: Devin Haney, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing's really there now I have to mention.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see, last time we saw Tank was in March
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty five against Lamart Roach, that infamous draw and
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  Speaker 4: most of the reasons the Tank has not been in
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  Speaker 4: the ring hasn't been because of injuries or boxing, it's
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  Speaker 4: because of legal issues. You know, that man has been
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  Speaker 4: put his hands on women many times, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly,
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  Speaker 4: allegedly has has you know, don't put his hands on women, allegedly,
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  Speaker 4: But that's honestly what's been keeping out of the ring
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  Speaker 4: of the spotlight.
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  Speaker 3: How likely do you think it is for.
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  Speaker 4: Tank to come back, and how much excitement is it
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  Speaker 4: for their willa staff people following him and is he
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  Speaker 4: still a big name in these days.
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  Speaker 2: Jameson if we know box the way we know boxers,
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  Speaker 2: there's a good chance he needs the money. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not trying to be funny. We know how boxers go.
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  Speaker 2: It sucks to say it that, but there's a high
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  Speaker 2: quality chance that he needs to be fighting because he
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  Speaker 2: needs the money. If he does have legal situations and
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  Speaker 2: other situations going on, then there's a good chance he
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  Speaker 2: needs those funds to you know, keep that up. You
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  Speaker 2: mentioned some things he's had in his personal life. Those
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  Speaker 2: are things that are unfortunate, but they are there. Can't
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  Speaker 2: ignore them, can't downplay them. They are what they are.
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  Speaker 2: With that being said, it is good to see him back.
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  Speaker 2: He is a one of the stars of boxing. He's
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  Speaker 2: one of the few guys that can sell out an arena,
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  Speaker 2: and he has a particular fighting style that people like.
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  Speaker 2: So it is a good thing that if he's back
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  Speaker 2: and he's actually switching up the training, that means he's
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  Speaker 2: actually serious by his craft. The one thing I think
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  Speaker 2: too many boxers do is they keep thinking status quote
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  Speaker 2: when there needs to be a change, and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times their corner. They don't want to switch up
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  Speaker 2: the corner of the training because who brought them, That's
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  Speaker 2: who they came here with, That's who they came up with.
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  Speaker 2: So they don't want to upset anyone. They don't want to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, piss anyone off. They don't want to do
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  Speaker 2: anything like that. But sometimes sometimes necessary, man. Sometimes you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's one of those things to where even though you
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  Speaker 2: have trust with someone, even though you've accomplished great things
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  Speaker 2: with someone, there comes a point in time where you
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  Speaker 2: have to outsource certain things because there's a ceiling and
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  Speaker 2: that's hit. Sometimes there's a relationship that even though you
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  Speaker 2: guys are on great terms and you've known each other forever,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you need someone else take you to a different level.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at tanks last performance, you can make
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  Speaker 2: argument that he wasn't necessarily prepared for that fight one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent. You can make argument that he wasn't the
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  Speaker 2: best fighter that night if you wanted to do so.
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  Speaker 2: So I think switching up the training and the corner
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  Speaker 2: might be some good because that was very close last fight.
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  Speaker 2: That fight could easily win the other way, and that
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  Speaker 2: changed everything. So I'm glad to see the initiative and
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  Speaker 2: the urgency from Tank.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, and speaking for myself, you know, I I'll admit admittedly,
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  Speaker 4: for me, it's very difficult to remove you know, the
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  Speaker 4: personal stuff from you know, the boxing and the fandom,
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  Speaker 4: et cetera. You know, it's very very difficult for me
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  Speaker 4: to continue being a fan of somebody with those allegations
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  Speaker 4: against them. Now, you and I have also kind of said,
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  Speaker 4: you mostly that you got to keep fighting, you gotta
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  Speaker 4: stay active, you gotta stay in the spotlight, or you know,
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  Speaker 4: boxing will pass you by. Anything can happen, you know,
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  Speaker 4: there could be another name this and that I'm kind
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  Speaker 4: of feeling like personally that we're here with Tank. I mean, yes,
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  Speaker 4: he's still a recognizable name. He's got a fighting style
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  Speaker 4: and he's always been a draw, but he's not ranked
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  Speaker 4: with any of the commissions. He's had his personal legal issues.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's time for boxing to move away from
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  Speaker 4: Tank Davis. You know, we have a lot of names
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  Speaker 4: that we've talked about in the last just say, this
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  Speaker 4: past whatever, like twelve months, potential new stars, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of guys.
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  Speaker 3: Lamar Roach definitely has made a name for himself. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. I mean, it's hard for me to say
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  Speaker 3: that we.
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  Speaker 4: Really need a guy like that back with those personal
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  Speaker 4: things going on for me. I mean, what's your taken
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  Speaker 4: on is seeing somebody that is a fan of the
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  Speaker 4: sport wants to see the sport succeed. But like you said,
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  Speaker 4: you know, there's things you can't ignore and can't downplay.
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  Speaker 2: So I separate the personal life from the sport life,
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  Speaker 2: and that everybody's me and I don't expect everyone to be.
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  Speaker 2: But I separate the sport, encore, on field entering, whatever
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  Speaker 2: you want to call it, from people's personal life. If
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  Speaker 2: what you're saying is correct, that means we have never
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  Speaker 2: seen the last ten plus fights of Floyd. If that
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  Speaker 2: was a case, allegedly, we would not have seen Mike
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  Speaker 2: Tyson after ninety one, and then countless others. I mean
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  Speaker 2: those are ones we know of. There's countless others who've
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  Speaker 2: had similar allegation and similar problem as well. I try
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  Speaker 2: not to get involved with off the field, off the
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  Speaker 2: court stuff, especially since we weren't there. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what happened, how it happened. I hear reports, I know allegations,
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  Speaker 2: I know of what was said or was all that stuff,
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  Speaker 2: but we weren't there. So I try to stay away
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  Speaker 2: from all that because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: in a lot of these situations, a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: happens that we don't know the full story on, and
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  Speaker 2: I try to stay away from that because once we
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  Speaker 2: start saying, hey, this is bad, this is bad, we
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  Speaker 2: got to keep that up with everybody, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: think we're prepared to do that as a whole. So
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  Speaker 2: I just try to separate people's personal life and people's
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  Speaker 2: boxing life as much as possible. I try a personally
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  Speaker 2: that does me. I don't expect everybody, I don't hold
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  Speaker 2: everybody to that typical standard, but I try to separate
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  Speaker 2: both because when I look at boxing, boxing definitely need
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  Speaker 2: the same, Davis. It definitely does. The one thing that
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  Speaker 2: boxing needs is someone that people talk about when their
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  Speaker 2: fighter coming up, when the fights take place, who they're
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  Speaker 2: going to fight next. As many of those guys as
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  Speaker 2: possible you can get it, you have to get them. Also,
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  Speaker 2: boxing doesn't have a collective bargain agreement. There's no rules
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  Speaker 2: on your outside behavior, so there's no oh, if you
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  Speaker 2: get this, you get suspended for this amount of time.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't quite work that way. I'm not saying it's right,
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  Speaker 2: but it doesn't work that way. There's no rules in boxing, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: so there would not be a grounds to take to
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  Speaker 2: have him step away from boxing and ever fight again.
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  Speaker 2: That would hurt boxing more than it helps in my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, and I definitely respect your opinion, and I'm not
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  Speaker 3: arguing the point.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just trying to give our different perspectives here and
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  Speaker 4: where I'm coming from. You know, I've always feel people
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  Speaker 4: say a lot separate the boxer from or the sorry
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  Speaker 4: the personal from the sporting world the professional world, and
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  Speaker 4: people say separate the art from the artist. So that's
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  Speaker 4: I kind of feel like I'm going the other way
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  Speaker 4: where I can do the same thing separate the art
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  Speaker 4: from the artists in the other direction, saying well, I
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: might like this person, I might be a fan, but
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: I can't support them because of everything goes on outside
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  Speaker 4: the ring, outside of the recording studio, et cetera. You
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. I think that's valid. Two for
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: anybody that says I would never tell anybody they should
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  Speaker 4: absolutely support somebody that they don't feel comfortable supporting, or
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: you know that if they're feeling, you know, just that
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: this person that is just kind of their personal life
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: is just kind of makes them pushes them away.
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  Speaker 3: Like that's understandable too.
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  Speaker 4: So I think for me, my biggest thing is that
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: you say that the sport needs Tank Davis. I just
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: think the sport more so needs more guys that bring
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: what Tank brings to the to the ring, you know,
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: like you said, excited about the fights coming up and
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: this and that, and I think that we have just
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: kind of put our eggs in too few baskets. I
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: guess if that's if that makes sense, And that's just
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: been an ongoing thing with where we don't have enough champs,
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: we don't have enough stars. We've talked about this before.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not breaking any news. I just kind of think that,
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  Speaker 4: especially after the year, we've seen the Great Fight, we've
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: seen the big names and then the up and comers.
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  Speaker 4: I just think that there's there's got to be room
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  Speaker 4: for more upcoming stars that you know, just don't don't
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  Speaker 4: have those extra factors that baggage, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Is what I'm trying to say that we know of right, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we know, sure, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, That's the thing that we have to be very
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: careful of because once we start saying, hey, this person
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: won't do this, that person won't do that, you start
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: finding out stuff and you're like, damn, that's worse than
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: who we're talking about. So I always try to caution
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: on that because these people just like you and I,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: and these people have behaviors and these people have emotions
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: just like everybody else. So I try to be very
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: careful when it comes to people outside lives and a
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: lot of stuff what comes out the full story don't
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: always come out. So that's why I always try to
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: be careful when comes to that. However, you have to
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: develop stars, and right now boxing's issue is they're putting
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: on fights, but they're not developing starves like they once did.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest issue with the sport. There's
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: excuse me, there's not enough boxers at the moment where
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: the casual person is like, Hey, I'm flying out to Vegas,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: I'm flying out to LA I'm flying out to New
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: York or wherever the fight is, and we're gonna be
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: here for the weekend for the fight. We don't have
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: enough of those boxers anymore. We used to. There was
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: a time when we did have several boxers like Damn
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Oscar fighting in Vegas. Oh, Mike's fighting in Vegas, or
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Floyd or whomever fight in Vegas. Let's go or whomever.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: We don't have that. We have to get back to
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: that because that's the only way the sport grows. When
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: people watch, that's cool, But you gotta get people to watch.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: You gotta gt people to go to the fights. You
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: gotta get people to be loud when at the fight.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: You gotta get goople to buy a merchandise. It's a
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: culative effort, and unfortunately, boxing itself has a poor job
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: of that. And there's a lot of different fact it's
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: not the boxer's fault. It's not a lot of factors
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: that go into that. So that's why it would be
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: very hard press see me just boot somebody away that
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: does have that factory, because right now we really need
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: to get more guys that are one really good fight.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I think sometimes we overrate guys because we want to
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: see them do well, but they're not as good as
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: we think they are. Well. I think we added to
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: the point where we have we developed more stars or
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: guys turn into a star, and that's something that we've
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: we've missed more often than not lately.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: And just for the listeners here, you know, I wanted
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: to bring up this conversation.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Be like rage baby, clickbaity anything like that. That's something
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: that we have too much of these days. I just
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: personally feel as a fan of the sport, you know,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: and as a fan of a person who admires boxers
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: like I admire boxers more than any other athlete in
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: the world, any of any other sport. I know, I
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: think these are conversations that just need to be had
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: of how much do we need you know, uh, you
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: know somebody that in the sport to become a star
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: that uh, but yeah, it's just something that we want
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: the conversation to keep going. If you have any thoughts
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: on this, you know, comments, let us know, and you know,
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: keep it respectful. I like to think you know, everything
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: that we're saying, we're not being you know, shitty about
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: or anything like that. We're having a respectful dialogue that
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: I think is productive for the sport. So do you disagree,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: That's perfectly cool, but you know, just let us know
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: in a in a set of respectful and positive way.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: So yeah, we'll see what happens, and we'll just keep
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: on the news and we'll just keep on what's keep
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: checking on what's going on with Tank Davis and other fighters.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Like I said, this weekend, we're gonna have Xanders Ayas
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: versus Boots Ennis and then Abdulla Mason back on July fourth,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: and uh, yeah, it's gonna have been a very good
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: year for boxing and I think we have a lot
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: more to come, and the Mixed Company podcast is going
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: to be here with you also do all of it.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: So Jamison, we can people find you on social.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Media on Twitter at the Jamison the Boots in this fight.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: It's interesting. Uh it's put up a shout time for
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: me with him. I've heard a lot of talker the
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: last off, I gotta see the shit, man, Like I
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: get tired of hearing our hype. I gotta see it.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: If I don't see it, then it's kind of like
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: the same old story. But he has that's a guy
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: that has actual star. He could be a star. He
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: can be a guy. Or people go to New York,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: go to Jersey, go to Philly, watch fight. But we
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: gotta see it. Man. There's a lot of hype. He
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: has a lot of good people behind him that hype
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: him up. But we gotta see it, man, We gotta
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: see it all right.
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